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...detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love of low-slung critters likely to carry the sinister gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sinister Gene | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Curves at 100. Through his intuition and endless inspection, Speed King Ferrari prevails as an individual against mass-production giants. His cars are high-strung, low-slung machines with the delicate balance of a watch and the stamina of a bull rhino. The 3.5-liter Ferrari that won the Mille Miglia is powered with a huge twelve-cylinder engine, the only V12 currently in production, which can push it smoothly along the straightaway at close to 190 m.p.h. The weight of engine and chassis is kept low in relation to the horsepower (about 6 Ibs. per h.p.). Thus the cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Champion's Champion | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...nights aboard his business car-almost always accompanied by his wife Lucile, a decorator and art connoisseur-since taking over. He had big, dramatic dreams for the New Haven that sometimes made his more conservative officers nervous. He proposed, for example, to replace the present mainline rolling stock with low-slung, highspeed, articulated Talgo trains (he has already ordered three), and to string a moving conveyor belt along the tracks between New York and Boston to carry less-than-carload freight. But for all his energy, ambition and ideas, McGinnis made his passengers feel like galley slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: All the Livelong Day | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...Soto Adventurer, a low-slung two-door hardtop which will develop 320 h.p. against the standard 255 h.p. Chrysler's other entry of the week: an experimental two-door station wagon, the Plainsman, featuring a rear "observation car" seat, facing backwards, so that its two passengers see not where the car is going, but where it has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Sporting Life | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...AEROTRAIN will be delivered to the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads early next month. Both railroads will make exhibition runs of the low-slung, lightweight, 100-m.p.h. Aerotrains for three weeks, then return them to G.M. for tune-ups. On May 1 the 400-passenger, $600,000 trains will go into service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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